On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:25:12 -0600, Sunworshipper
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:54:58 -0600, CaveLamb
wrote:


And interesting essay.
But will people buy products designed to be repaired?


http://consumerist.com/2010/11/the-s...ectronics.html

That was cool. Give an idealist a bunch of electronic gizmos and
that's what yea get.

I could have used that chick the last time I worked on my Toyota, the
clips that hold the air filter have to be lifted up and there is no
space to get a finger in. I had to get a paint stick and from
underneath looking straight up, push the clip up, and tape the stick
to the body, then jump up and pull the cover off.

One would think after a GOOD hundred years they could make a car where
you can get some of the engine apart one part at a time. Oh, and keep
the tool sizes under say 5.

While I'm at it. I have two toys of the same year and everything is
about 3/32 of an inch different on all interchangeable parts,
including the air filter!

Had that problem years ago when the timing chain ate through the
aluminum cover. Got another from a junk yard and majors amount of work
later the covers are 3/32" different.


You had 2 different engines. I'll bet one was an 8R and the other an
18R - or a 20R and a 22R.
The cam-in-block designs used interchangeable parts (2T and 3T, k, 2k,
3k and, IIRC, 5K) and 3R and 5R.

On some, the newer fit the older with a few update parts, while the
older might not fit the newer (upgrades for reliability etc)

If I make a product with lots of aluminum, copper, and steel when the
customer wants to recycle it do I get the inflated future price sent
back to me?

SW